Abstract
With the liberalization of European Broadcasting from the 1980s and the early identification by new commercial channels of sporting events as key content to encourage viewing/subscription, the relationship between and media organizations has inevitably become closer and more lucrative. However with the amendment of the European Union's (EU) Television Without Frontiers Directive in 1997 a new element-the state-entered the equation, rendering this relationship all the more complex. This article demonstrates the extent to which, in the modern era, journalism can only offer a truly comprehensive account of events by adopting approaches more commonly associated with business and political journalism. It does so by examining the biggest Irish sports story of 2002: not the Irish teams participation in the World Cup but the subsequent sale of broadcast rights for that team's home games to BSkyB. The narrative throws light on the increasingly complex relationship between sport, commercial, and pub...
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